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Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas is Coming!

Well we survived last week's outbursts...we seem to have one per day now so I am getting more used to them. Can't imagine what life we be like when they are teens...hopefully they will have developed some really good drugs by then so I can survive!

We are enjoying an unusually cold and rainy day here in San Diego. So the girls are watching Shrek which is their favorite movie right now. I just finished ordering the last of my Christmas gifts online and I spent most of the morning packing up my club orders and finishing my club members Christmas gifts. They are going out a little later than I wanted but I had to wait on a few folks to get their orders to me this time so I apologize about that! They will all be airborne by tomorrow though and some went out Saturday.

For those of you following my yoga experience I am happy to report that I have lost 3.5# now and finished my 12th class. It is getting much easier to handle the hot room and I feel great when it is done so I am extremely pleased with how well it is working. Joel says he can already see a huge difference. Here is a link if you want to watch an interesting 60 minute interview with Bikram himself...I think the McYoga reference is funny, but San Diego is the first place I have ever lived that had it...click on the picture of Bikram and download the interview.

So here is a card that I did for my club's technique this month and my card swap....it uses one of my favorite techniques, reverse masking!

Basically you cut a shape out of cardstock and use that as a template to sponge your color inside your mask. Here is a look at what my mask for these ornaments looked like:

I used a 1 1/2" inch circle punch, a 1 3/8" circle punch and a 1 1/4" circle punch. I also used the Top Note Die for the Big Shot. I held the mask in place and stamped my snowflake background on each of the ornaments and then used a green fern branch from a retired set hostess set called garden sillouettes to look like a branch. I used Red Riding hood ink and cardstock, baja breeze ink and cardstock, kiwi kiss ink and always artichoke ink for the branch. I also used the set Short and Sweet for the sentiment.

Here are some other cards you may recognize using the same technique..one uses an oval mask:

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Come share my love of everything paper, everything running and everything Italian, as well as life with twin 7 year olds. I have been stamping and scrapbooking for 14 years now and a SU demo for 8. At first I was only good at CASEing (CASE...copy and share everything) but now I find elements I like from different projects and put them together for my own stuff... hence the blog name as that is how I have found some of my favorite things! I will post as often as I can and share what I am working on with you guys! Stamp on!!! Deidre